I’ve gone even further back, having mine painted on Greek pottery

Thanks, I hate it!

None that I’m aware of. Feel free to broaden my horizons, though!

I’ve been running NoScript for ages, so for me, any JS source not explicitly whitelisted is disabled by default. I have yet to encounter a single modern paywall that can be circumvented by this. Care to share where this still works?

You’re right about the scaling issues with mobile.

Good work, citizen! The tech bros need you to believe that their dumb digital parrots will eventually, magically metamorphose into AGI. It’s the only thing that keeps that sweet VC money flowing and the AI bubble from popping.

uBlock blocks ads. It does not make visible what isn’t transferred.

This, however, does (the article, stripped of its paywall)

Not the Onion?

To be fair, pissing on it was their only remedy after they had lit it on fire. All the water is reserved for putting out the dumpster fire that used to be the White House.

I can’t help but wonder if the empowerment LLMs may have to an individual is terrifying leaders into an authoritarian mindset

LLMs are here to enrich the rich, not to “empower the individual”. They require ridiculously expensive computing power, which makes them impractical or even impossible to self-host (with data centers buying up the market, the required hardware becomes unaffordable to the individual). Now you’re at the mercy of renting out the compute from the oligarchs and their companies, and you’re also relying on their censored and biased models (see Grok and his “Mecha-Hitler” antics if you want a taste of the future). Please don’t expect that to empower you, or anyone else. It can’t, and even if it could, it wouldn’t be available to you.

Unless we democratise LLMs, they’ll just become yet another tool of enslavement in the clutches of the Epstein class.

I’ve started several attempts to migrate to it, and they’ve all failed. The workflow just doesn’t work for me. It’s extremely click-heavy and (subjectively) unintuitive. (I want to delete a file. Why TF can’t I just use Del to do that?)

Lightroom is the single Windows application that I still haven’t successfully replaced with a FOSS alternative. It’s confined to a Windows VM with no internet access. That’s fine for now.

“Had its backdoor opened” rather. It’s the Epstein class we’re dealing with here.

“Corruption” is the word you were looking for.

To be fair, I don’t trust European companies with it either. As the saying goes: “Where there’s a trough, there will be pigs.” Want to keep your data safe? Keep it.

Life when you start dating your sidequest instead of your mainquest. 😈

I am too - every single day. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’m stupid.

WDYM by “browsing through”? As in, you get different search results? Or a different start page with suggested videos?

Maybe I’m weird, but I never use that. Either I have a specific need (an instruction video, a specific song or video episode). Then I use the search. Or I want to see what’s new. Then I check the channels of creators I like.

If you use the platform like that (which is basically like Lemmy), it’s a lot harder to algorithmically lock you in. (I only use third-party clients like FreeTube and Newpipe though, which block most types of tracking and don’t require a Google account).

Personally, I don’t.

But not everyone is able to (for lack of awareness to alternatives, technical skills, software constraints, work requirements, vendor lock-in, …). Are those people unworthy of being protected from an evil company’s wrongdoing just because they’re using the “wrong” OS?

You’re basically arguing that corporations can do whatever they please “on their own turf”. That’s not true as far as user rights, consumer protection and anti-trust laws are concerned. And it shouldn’t be.

“You’re on my property, I’m allowed to shoot you here.”

While these “ethics” do exist, they’re extremely niche. So don’t pretend yours aren’t.

@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works was faster than me (thanks!). Yes, as of now, firmware updates for existing models are only allowed for yet another year and must be discontinued after. As always in this administration, the reasons given for these measures (Chinese attacks on US infrastructure) are built on lies and misinformation (none of the attacks targeted consumer routers). Hence, this is likely just another shakedown: “pay us a bribe or we’ll damage your opportunities to do business in the US.” Depending on whether foreign router vendors opt to go this route and give in to the orange grifter’s demands, things may be different in a years’ time.

Could you in theory demand a refund from the government if you were willing to switch to their backdoor US hardware now?

From a government of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class? No. You most certainly cannot.

Old or new, doesn’t matter. They stopped allowing you to download books licensed (“sold”) through the kindle shop in order to prevent you from putting them onto your device via cable.

…which makes “cunt behaviour” even more accurate. ;)